Thanks for the feedback. I'm sure that BreezeBrowser vs. Bridge-ACR is
the cause of the 8/16 bit mystery. I have a great dislike of Bridge and
always use BreezeBrowser when I can. However, BreezeBrowser (at least
the old version that I have), despite the fact that it will pass
multiple images directly into PS, does not succeed in passing multiple
images into ACR. When I'm processing a raw file shoot I'm forced to use
Bridge since I typically load 6-12 images at a time. I clearly
processed the raw files via Bridge and then switched to BreezeBrowser to
use its image comparison and selection features and then continued using
BreezeBrowser to pass selected images to PS for retouching.
After writing the piece on the text tool using white as the foreground
color I recalled that, at some point, the color picker popped up as a
result of my having hit a key or clicked on something accidentally. I
dismissed it without further thought and perhaps that's where the change
occurred. Now that I know and can recognize the effect (invisible text)
it's not a problem.
Chuck Norcutt
On 3/29/2011 10:22 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 3/29/2011 5:00 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> Thanks for the tips. I wasn't aware of the options. But I did notice
>> just today that CS5 was opening some JPEG images in PS as 8 bits. I
>> don't know why nor what I did to change its behavior except perhaps that
>> the source of those JPEGs was a CR2 file that had been processed in ACR.
>
> CS5 itself will open ordinary JPEGs as 8 bit. It's only when they are opened
> via Bridge-ACR, and with 16 bit output set,
> that it will open them as 16 bit.
>
> However, when they have been opened that way once, and ACR has altered the
> EXIF, they will open as 16 bit any future
> time in PS. So in the same directory, you could open one JPEG and have it
> open as 8-bit, sRGB, directly in PS, then
> click on an adjacent one, which would open in ACR, ready to pass to PS as
> 16-bit in aRGB. If working in Bridge, there is
> a little icon upper right in the 'frame' around the thumbnail for those
> images that already have ACR EXIF info. But when
> working in FastStone, Explorer, BreezeBrowser, IrfanView, etc. there's no way
> to know which is which as thumbnails.
>
>> Another real oddity in behavior change happened today which I think is
>> surely a simple bug. I was baffled for awhile when the text tool
>> appeared to stop typing text. The cursor would move and leave a row of
>> underscores behind (marking where the text was supposed to be). After
>> being totally baffled for about 15 minutes I finally realized that the
>> foreground color (which has always been black) had somehow been changed
>> to white and was writing invisible text on the white background.
>
> Interesting. I am often changing foreground/background colors when painting
> masks, so I'm almost always aware of what
> they are. Also, anytime you use the dropper to sample colors or set WB,
> whatever you clicked on becomes the foreground
> color. The little B/W squares by the colors set it back to pure B& W.
>
>> Changing the color to black again resolved the mystery except the
>> mystery about how it got changed in the first place.
>
> I suspect that what happened is that you inadvertently pressed the 'x' key.
> PS has lots of keyboard shortcuts, few of
> which most of us learn, and it's easy to forget so many keys have a function
> when not being used in text input mode. 'X'
> switches foreground and background colors.
>
> If you can't remember that Ctrl-I will reverse a mask without using the Fill
> tool, you probably don't know many keyboard
> shortcuts. ;-)
>
> Moose
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